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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
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To: Harkirat Singh <singh@pdx.edu>
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Subject: Re: UDP - Reliable throughput mesaurement tool
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Harkirat Singh wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>         I want to measure UDP thruput of lossy channel, is there any tool
> which tests it? I looked at some of the tools but these do not take care
> of loss, I mean no retransmisson, just measure raw thruput of UDP (TTCP
> is one of these).
> 
> I am looking for a measurement tool which should retransmit in case of
> loss and keep a track of packets, I mean make UDP reliable amd blocking
> calls.

I may be missing something here ... but if you're looking for reliable
UDP, why not use TCP?

-Bill

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